When other little girls were dreaming about becoming doctors or lawyers, Alex Garrett set her sights on conquering the high-powered world of Wall S...
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Nov 16, 2011
Dianne
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Bond Girl: A Novel By: Erin Duffy
This book is being advertised as “The Devil Wears Prada meets Wall Street” and that is true. In fact, it is so true that if you have already read “The Devil Wears Prada” you won’t need to use any of your free time on this book. This book is not “fresh”, not “hip” nor is it even remotely funny. It was sad and depressing and you could see the ending coming a mile away, and no I don’t mean the financial crash. The only thing you may find interesting a More...
This book is being advertised as “The Devil Wears Prada meets Wall Street” and that is true. In fact, it is so true that if you have already read “The Devil Wears Prada” you won’t need to use any of your free time on this book. This book is not “fresh”, not “hip” nor is it even remotely funny. It was sad and depressing and you could see the ending coming a mile away, and no I don’t mean the financial crash. The only thing you may find interesting a More...
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Feb 12, 2012
Kat
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You know you've read an excellent book when you can wait to tell someone about it and all the best parts of the book. Only in this one, the entire book is filled with the best parts. Bond Girl by Erin Duffy is the story of Alex Garrett, who has dreamed of a career in the finance industry since she was eight, following in her father's footsteps. Only this is a predominantly male industry and not that many women find the success she is hoping for.
She finally attends college hoping that t More...
She finally attends college hoping that t More...
Jan 31, 2012
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Alex Garriet has dreamed about following into her father’s footsteps and one day working in Wall Street. She graduates college and lands a prestigious internship at Cromwell Pierce’s sales floor, but she is not prepared for the reality of life on “The Street.” This is not a normal working environment. It’s the high octane, big money, world of finance where everything seems to happen at warp speed. People run down halls, shout instead of speak and pass the time playing fraternity type jokes on ea
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Jan 07, 2012
Carla-Book Monster Reviews
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Erin Duffy wows us in “Bond Girl” with her wicked humor, her wit and sense of honor and duty. She is a new voice in literature to be reckoned with and her first novel has set a bar that many will not be able to match.
Alex Garrett has always been a tomboy; having more fun playing sports with the boys in the neighborhood than hanging with her girl friends. So when she decides to follow her father’s footsteps and enter the financial world of Wall Street, no one is really surprised. H More...
Alex Garrett has always been a tomboy; having more fun playing sports with the boys in the neighborhood than hanging with her girl friends. So when she decides to follow her father’s footsteps and enter the financial world of Wall Street, no one is really surprised. H More...
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Sep 30, 2011
Phyllis
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One day when Alex Garrett was eight years old, her investment banker father took her to work with him. From that day on, Alex’s ambition was to work in “the Business” on Wall Street. When she landed her first job after college with a prestigious Wall Street trading firm, she was thrilled. Star struck she entered the building on her first day excited to begin. She knew she would have to work hard and work her way up the ranks of bond traders but she didn’t expect to have a tiny metal foldin
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Feb 12, 2012
Angelina
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I just needed an airplane book. Because of the decent review it received from EW I was expecting it to be better than it was. I'm not expecting War and Peace with these kinds of books but could I have got a little more emotion from the protag other than crying, constant confusion and out-of-nowhere bitchiness? She kept saying she wasn't a crier and then proceeded to describe herself crying five times. She worked with a bunch of pigs; one bad moment she shrugs it off, the next she jumps down some
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Feb 02, 2012
Jeff
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Embarassingly, I had gotten some interest in this thinking, based solely on title and buzz, that this was sort of a reverse Bond book. Sort of like a chick-lit-spy-thriller.
It's not.
A better comparison, as made more or less everywhere else at this point, is The Devil Wears Prada on Wall Street. It's really not a great comparison - Prada was better, and it simply boils the idea down to "female protagonist in male-dominated field novel," which really tells us More...
It's not.
A better comparison, as made more or less everywhere else at this point, is The Devil Wears Prada on Wall Street. It's really not a great comparison - Prada was better, and it simply boils the idea down to "female protagonist in male-dominated field novel," which really tells us More...
Jan 06, 2012
Patty
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Bond
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Erin Duffy
Wow...I did not know what to expect from this book but ultimately it was brilliant.
I gasped at the inner workings of Wall Street and this investment firm.
Alex...main character and star of the show...goes to work for this firm right out of college. She is smart, clever and ill prepared for what it is like to work with the big boys...
She is renamed Girlie and is the new face of indentured labor in this firm.
Her job description ra More...
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Erin Duffy
Wow...I did not know what to expect from this book but ultimately it was brilliant.
I gasped at the inner workings of Wall Street and this investment firm.
Alex...main character and star of the show...goes to work for this firm right out of college. She is smart, clever and ill prepared for what it is like to work with the big boys...
She is renamed Girlie and is the new face of indentured labor in this firm.
Her job description ra More...
Sep 16, 2011
Gary
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A quick shortcut by which to communicate the overall feel and tone of Erin Duffy's debut novel, Bond Girl would be to say that it is something like a combination of Wall Street meets The Devil Wears Prada. It is unfair to Ms Duffy to characterize her book that way, however, as the comparison could be taken to imply that Ms Duffy consciously combined aspects of those two stories to come up with hers. All thoughts along those lines should be banished—Bond Girl is a fresh, original take on the “plu
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Feb 13, 2012
Susan
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I had high hopes for this book but they didn't pan out. If you want a cliched book with little chuckles, then pick this one up. It's the standard girl gets out of college, finds a demanding job with a horrific boss and then stumbles around making mistakes, being abused mentally and drinking great amounts of alcohol. Where have we seen this story before? Let me count the books.
This is set on Wall Street which I assume is to make it more interesting. It didn't to me. The financial talk was i More...
This is set on Wall Street which I assume is to make it more interesting. It didn't to me. The financial talk was i More...
Feb 09, 2012
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Jan 25, 2012
Jess
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This book was on my radar, but I probably wouldn't have gotten to it in YEARS (see my to-read list) if I hadn't walked past someone asking me if I wanted a signed book at the HarperCollins display at a conference. So I waited in line, chatted with the author as she signed, and added it to my pile. It seemed like a good length to read for my flight home, so I started it once I got on the plane.
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Feb 11, 2012
Colleen
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In Bond Girl by Erin Duffy, we meet Alex Garrett, a recent college grad with her heart set on following her father's footsteps into the world of high finance. She snags a job at the prestigious brokerage firm Cromwell Pierce and embarks on what she imagines will be a fast-paced, exciting career. Imagine her disappointment when she arrives at the firm and is assigned a metal folding chair (no desk) with her assigned nickname "girlie" emblazoned across the back in wite-out. Faced with lo
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Feb 06, 2012
Jenny
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Bond Girl is being touted as the Wall Street version of The Devil Wears Prada. It definitely had its similarities, and those who liked the latter will probably like this. I can't really compare since I've only seen the movie version of the second, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book about a young college graduate who starts a job in finance on Wall Street and realizes it's not as glamorous as she expected it to be. That's pretty much the whole gist of this book. She deals with some crazy things t
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Dec 11, 2011
Rose
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Sometimes a girl just wants to read a light, entertaining chick lit book. This was just what I wanted & it delivered what I expected. It was an entertaining story & I liked Alex, the protagonist. She's an honest, somewhat sarcastic, career oriented female taking on a business consisting mostly of males. It was fun & a little cringe worthy to read about her experiences being one of very few females working on Wall Street & I'm ever so thankful that bonds & trades & the entire stock market world
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Feb 11, 2012
Kirsten
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This is.... entirely typical for what it is. The setting is the only unique or interesting thing about this - and it is a fascinating peek into Wall Street. But my usual reaction to reading books like this is not sympathy for the situation they are in, but wondering why they bother putting up with all the crap (here, at least, it's always been her dream since childhood to work on Wall Street - so arguably it takes her a while overcome that). When the answer is so obviously "QUIT YOUR DAM
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Feb 15, 2012
Genny
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A fun, quirky, and easy read. Some say it is The Devil Wears Prada for Wall Street. And I do see the similarities, but they really are two different books, with a different feel.
Alex has always wanted to work in the financial world, even since her father took her to work when she was 8 (he works as a banker on Wall Street). She gets her dream when she graduates from college, only to find out that the financial world is not as glamorous as it seemed as a child. Yet as she learns t More...
Alex has always wanted to work in the financial world, even since her father took her to work when she was 8 (he works as a banker on Wall Street). She gets her dream when she graduates from college, only to find out that the financial world is not as glamorous as it seemed as a child. Yet as she learns t More...
Feb 18, 2012
Rachel
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When tomboy Alex Garrett was little, she realized a few things about her Wall Street banker father’s place of employment: “inside voices” were not necessary, there was a tantalizingly frenetic urgency, and there were boys everywhere. In short, Alex knew that Wall Street was the place for her. A decade and a half later, in 2006, Alex graduates from college and is hired as a bond trader for the firm Cromwell Pierce. Alex learns the ropes of her stressful job in a volatile economic climate, naviga
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Nov 21, 2011
Kathryn
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Jan 29, 2012
Christina
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This book read like a memoir: first person and the author went through some of these experiences so it's hard to separate her from her character. It breezes along at a rapid pace due to the tension Duffy creates from the sometimes funny, often panic-inducing experiences her character Girlie goes through the first year or so at a bond trading firm in Manhattan right before the housing market goes belly up. The overwhelming sexism and sexual harassment Girlie must deal with would be too much witho
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Feb 19, 2012
Tara
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There are two types of women that work in the "man's world." One, the woman who because a bitter and cruel man hater (and really, with what she has to put up with all day, it's no wonder), and two, the woman who gets fake tits and wears tiny tops and lets her thong hang out and knows absolutely nothing about the job. The former is Cruella. The latter is Baby Gap. And in between, you have Alex.
Alex entered the world of Wall Street believing she'd get fair treatment, that he More...
Alex entered the world of Wall Street believing she'd get fair treatment, that he More...
Nov 16, 2011
Ashley
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It's hard to say a lot about this book. It's interesting; Alex is a gripping main character; I picked up the book with some uncertainty because the title made me think of Bond-as-in-James, and upon realized it was a book about a Wall Street employee I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it -- just not my thing.
Alex kept me in the story. It turned out to be a bit more chick lit and a bit less hard Wall Street, which I think helped; what I expected to be sort of dry turned out to be very d More...
Alex kept me in the story. It turned out to be a bit more chick lit and a bit less hard Wall Street, which I think helped; what I expected to be sort of dry turned out to be very d More...
Feb 19, 2012
Chea
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This was like The Devil Wears Prada except it took place on Wall Street, and instead of a lady boss screaming in high heels, it was a man boss screaming in khakis. Of course, the chick who's smart enough to become one of the few women traders on sexist Wall Street isn't smart enough not to date a handsome cad who is so clearly not a good guy for an interminable amount of time, nor is she smart enough to carry a pizza box on a slippery floor without taking off her stilettos. But all smart, capabl
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Feb 20, 2012
Jessica
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BOND GIRL came into my life at the perfect time. I was in a serious reading slump, and I have to admit, I was a bit skeptical when I picked up this book. Described as “The Devil Wears Prada” but instead of fashion, finance, I found it hard to believe that this book was going to be exciting. But oh, I was SO wrong. So very wrong.
I tore through BOND GIRL in just a few days, often staying up late into the night to get in a few more pages. It was extremely easy to get lost in Alex’s worl More...
I tore through BOND GIRL in just a few days, often staying up late into the night to get in a few more pages. It was extremely easy to get lost in Alex’s worl More...
Oct 14, 2011
Megan (Book Brats)
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I was lucky to receive an ARC of this book thanks to Book Reporter (http://bookreporter.com) and after my life settled down (if you didn't know, my grandfather was in the hospital and then stayed with my family for two weeks) I finally got a chance to pick it up. I read the book in 24 hours and put all other books and my job search aside. It was that good.
BOND GIRL follows Alex, a recent college graduate who has aspired to follow in her father's footsteps and work on a financial tr More...
BOND GIRL follows Alex, a recent college graduate who has aspired to follow in her father's footsteps and work on a financial tr More...
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Nov 17, 2011
Moira
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It is funny, and entrancing, and I couldn't put it down. I totally have a girl crush on Alex, and if she was real and didn't insist on living on the wrong coast we could definitely be friends. Will is an ass, Chick is an amazing boss with an under-appreciated sense of appropriate training techniques (my HR self is not so secretly amused at his methodology and insanely glad he doesn't work for my company), and the guys of the desk sound like the kind of family who put the fun in dysfunctional (wh
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Sep 13, 2011
Amber
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This book is fast-paced, hilarious and doesn't hold back, revealing all the crazy (and sometimes horrifying) antics in the dog-eat-dog world of Wall Street. Alex, or "Girlie," is smart and beautiful, but you can still easily identify and sympathize with her vulnerabilities. I knew nothing about the financial industry but I felt like Alex was really giving me an insider's look, including all the ugly that I had guessed accompanied the superficial glamour. Alex is such a likable characte
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Nov 13, 2011
Dan
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Erin Duffy’s life working on “The Street “ has giving her enough stories to write an absolutely hilarious and amazing novel which is Bond Girl. Ever since she was a child, Alex Garrett wanted to work on Wall Street and she when she is older she starts her career at an investment firm. Trying to break into the bond market business and compete with the boys is a struggle and the abuse and shenanigans that take place are only the beginning. This is not a boring, stuffy look at Wall Street, but an e
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Jan 20, 2012
TK
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Smart, funny, engrossing! I loved this behind-the-scenes look at a Wall Street bond trading desk--I had no idea the what it was like! And how hard it is for a woman to make her way in this world. Erin Duffy's writing is smooth, her character is someone I want to be best friends with, and her New York city is one I recognize well from when I was in my 20's. I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves romcoms, who enjoys laughing through a novel, who loves storie set in NYC, and for the woma
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Jan 26, 2012
Diana (Random Pabulum)
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Bond Girl is Erin Duffy’s debut novel about Alex Garrett, who has always wanted to work on Wall Street for as long as she can remember. The book is set long before the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, right before the financial crisis of 2008. Bond Girl follows Alex’s journey into the world of bonds, starting with her hazing at Cromwell Pierce, one of the “Street’s” most prestigious brokerage firms; it chronicles her rise at Cromwell Pierce, as well as her moral fall.
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